Girl (part I)

By wannabe_rebel

I want to peel your outer parts away
like I would to an orange,
and sink my fingers inside your skin
to feel the acid under my nails.

Your breath always smells of alcohol
and your hair glints red under streetlamps
like the wine bottles under your bed.

The chicken bones under your thin skin
are dry and hollowed out with age,
the ground-down core to fill the sand boxes
leaking trails to sugar in my dreams.

If I were a man you’d let me peel you,
trail my fingers over your face
and linger on the citrus corners of your mouth.
If I were a man, I wouldn’t want you.

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Copyright 2005 Kristin Hubbard
Published on Monday, July 11, 2005.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • Sticky Kitty On Monday, September 10, 2007, Sticky Kitty (242)By person wrote:

    stunning. wonderful imagery. i feel oddly liberated. -kitty

  • A former member wrote: that's hot.....in a sick and twisted sort of way

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